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Chuck Karas

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Chuck is Currently Reading

Chuck Karas is currently reading

A Thousand Splendid Suns

by Khaled Hosseini (Goodreads Author)

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Upgrade

by Blake Crouch (Goodreads Author)

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Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

by Matthew Walker

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Chuck’s Quotes

“Of all that we're asked to give others in this life, the most difficult to offer may be forgiveness.”
― William Kent Krueger, This Tender Land

tags: difficulties, forgive, forgiveness

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“When I started in homicide, the Dead Sea was just sick.”
― John Connolly, The Killing Kind

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“The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.”
― Steve Cavanagh, Thirteen

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“I'm so horny the crack of dawn isn't safe.”
― John Sandford, Bad Blood”
― John Sandford

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“They listened to the Beatles for most of the journey, and Hynes explained to Gackowska why Abbey Road was the band’s best record, and how Sgt. Pepper’s wasn’t really a concept album, no matter what anyone claimed to the contrary. Then he had to explain to Gackowska what a concept album was, and a B side, until pretty soon he felt about a hundred years old and was tempted to check himself into a nursing home.”
― John Connolly, A Book of Bones

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